I'll mention with caution that mine is running Vista Home Premium and has yet to demand an internet connection when a commercial CD or DVD has been played - but it is early days.

I'm finding HP support very obliging - I've made two queries to them and gotten a response with the needed information (and Vista compatible software for a year old printer, in one instance) within one hour of emailing them.

My neighbour has managed to load and use Word Perfect 9 on her Vista platform. Apparently Vista whines and complains about it, but it runs just fine.

It is a bit glitchy - I've had half a dozen or so error messages indicating problems 'which Windows will attempt to resolve', but then nothing else seems to happen and everything continues to operate.